Chapter 637 - 202: Red Makeup Evolves Again

Inside the room, smoke billowed like surging waves, exuding a sense of mystery and turbulence.

When the turbulence subsided into stillness, and the stillness solidified, new text gradually appeared, hovering in mid-air.

Shen Bai studied the text in the air and rubbed his chin. "What’s the deal with this one?"

[Unhealing Spirit Casting Skill Level 5 (Casting +16, Fault Tolerance +16, Commander +16, Soul Absorption +16, Unhealed +16): 0/15,000]

After reaching its second qualitative transformation, the Spirit Casting Technique had become the Unhealing Spirit Casting Skill.

Additionally, it had gained an extra Undying Attribute.

Shen Bai didn’t understand the meaning of "Unhealed," but that wasn’t a major issue.

The phantom in the vision would make him understand everything.

As this thought surfaced in Shen Bai’s mind, the scene before him began to blur.

The blurring didn’t last long. By the time everything sharpened from blurry to clear, Shen Bai was no longer in the room.

He now found himself in a world made entirely of metal.

The ground was a mosaic of various metals, reflecting a cold, shimmering light under the glare.

In the distance stood a colossal mountain; as far as the eye could see, it was all metal.

The phantom was sitting cross-legged on the ground, its hands on its knees in a posture of meditation.

’Time to show off again.’

Seeing this, Shen Bai knew what was coming. The phantom was about to start its little show.

Sure enough, just as the thought crossed Shen Bai’s mind, the scene before him changed instantly.

Waves of a sinister, cold aura emanated from the mountain in the distance.

"BOOM!"

A massive, earth-shattering roar echoed. As the sound hit, the colossal mountain began to tremble violently.

A pair of ice-cold eyes opened on the face of the mountain.

Immediately after, the mountain grew arms and legs, resembling a giant whose head touched the heavens.

The sinister aura coiled around it as the entire mountain transformed into an aberration, its imposing presence terrifying to behold.

The colossal mountain aberration, once formed, charged toward the phantom without a moment’s hesitation.

A heaven-blotting palm descended from above, as if to annihilate everything in sight.

Just then, the phantom moved.

Before Shen Bai’s eyes, the phantom raised a hand and pointed casually.

The metal on the ground trembled and coalesced in mid-air into an iron fist, which then shot toward the mountain aberration.

"BOOM!"

The mountain aberration staggered back a dozen steps, its feet gouging deep craters into the ground.

At that moment, countless wounds appeared all over the mountain aberration’s body.

But in the next instant, the mountain aberration suddenly opened its mouth and began to devour the metal on the ground.

Any metal devoured by the mountain aberration vanished quickly.

The wounds on the mountain aberration’s body rapidly disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, Shen Bai understood. ’It can recover from its injuries by devouring metal,’ he thought.

The ground was covered in metal. Given the mountain aberration’s recovery ability, this was shaping up to be a battle of attrition.

At least in Shen Bai’s eyes, the mountain aberration’s recovery speed was far superior to his own Poison Avoidance and Spirit Recovery Skill.

As he was thinking this, the mountain aberration charged at the phantom again, seemingly determined to crush it completely.

The phantom once again raised its right hand and pointed at the mountain aberration from afar.

With this point, the metal on the ground formed a colossal blade, larger than the mountain itself, and pierced through the aberration.

A horrifying wound appeared once more, even larger than the last.

The mountain aberration didn’t stop. Driven by instinct, it frantically devoured the metal on the ground.

But afterward, there was no change in the mountain aberration’s condition.

The wound was still there, showing no signs of recovery.

Shen Bai narrowed his eyes at the sight.

He could sense something special hovering around the wound on the mountain aberration.

It was a current of dark energy, preventing the wound from recovering.

"So that’s it. This is what the Undying Attribute does," Shen Bai said, a look of sudden realization on his face.

Below, the phantom launched a series of successive attacks.

The metal coalesced into all sorts of Weapons—sabers, spears, swords, and lances.

These Weapons, imbued with an immensely powerful killing aura, plunged into the mountain aberration’s body.

The mountain aberration continued to eat metal, but it had no effect whatsoever. It couldn’t recover at all.

A moment later, when a final greatsword pierced through the mountain aberration, it dissolved into nothingness.

From beginning to end, the phantom remained seated cross-legged, looking completely unfazed.

Combined with the image of countless blades and axes and the mountain aberration’s sudden dissolution, Shen Bai knew the phantom had succeeded in looking cool again.

When it came to showing off, Shen Bai felt he was no match for the phantom.

As he was thinking this, his surroundings began to blur once more.

When everything came back into focus, Shen Bai was back in his room.

...

"Unhealing Spirit Casting, decay without life."

The words turned into smoke, drilled into Shen Bai’s mind, and quickly vanished.

By the time Shen Bai returned to normal, he had absorbed all the Information and mastered all the techniques of the Unhealing Spirit Casting Skill.

The so-called "Unhealed" effect meant that wounds could not heal.

Any wound inflicted by something Shen Bai had cast, as long as it fell within the scope of the Unhealed +16 effect, would persist and even worsen over time.

This was a terrifying Divine Power.

Just imagine: someone wounded by Shen Bai’s Longsword would not only have their Qi absorbed by him, but they would also be hit with a grievous wound debuff. The very thought was horrifying.

Shen Bai, however, was already getting used to it.

’I’m not playing the part of a good guy anyway,’ Shen Bai thought nonchalantly.

On this path of abandoning his humanity, he had already strayed quite far.

Since that was the case, he might as well go all in.